Indonesia has a plan to reopen its tourist spaces to foreign visitors, fearing that such a move could undermine the country’s efforts to involve the spread of the coronavirus, state Business Minister Erick Thohir said.
Thohir, which oversees the day-to-day operations of the country’s group of coronavirus brokers, answers a question about whether the government is moving forward with a plan to reopen Bali, Indonesia’s most popular tourist site, on September 11 as planned.
“We don’t need the program to make Indonesia healthy compromised through the plan to allow foreign tourists in, and it creates potential new groups,” Thohir said in an online discussion saturday. “As a result, the committee has to review this plan to allow foreign tourists to enter.”
Foreign tourists, which generate billions of dollars in revenue, remain a component of Indonesia’s economy, he said. The fourth most populous country in the world remains under the influence of the pandemic, and the number of cases has quintupled since the end of May.
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